Under Capricorn (1949)

UNDER CAPRICORN  (1949)  ¢ ¢ ¢
    D: Alfred Hitchcock
    Ingrid Bergman, Joseph Cotten, Michael Wilding,
    Margaret Leighton, Cecil Parker, Denis O'Dea
A rare Hitchcock period piece (he didn't like doing them), with Michael Wilding as a fortune seeker who lands in 19th-century Australia and gets tangled up in the lives of a wealthy landowner (Joseph Cotten) and his emotionally troubled wife (Ingrid Bergman). There are some impressively long takes in this - the scene where Bergman tells Wilding how she came to kill her brother recalls "Rope" - but nobody, including Hitchcock, would put this on a list with his best movies. Cotten, Bergman and Wilding are all supposed to be Irish, but you'd have a tough time finding a trace of an Irish accent between them.